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Other then Little People Big World, I have each of those others shows recording on multiple DVRs with no issues.

Only time it has recorded "repeats", is when I look, and they are generic information. Have you tried removing the Series Link and readding it?

Your SVU, is it on NBC? Or one of the Syndicated Replays?

These shows in my Series Link list are on the original networks only... L&O:SVU on NBC, MythBusters on Discovery, Little People on TLC, etc.

I did remove and re-create the Series Link list and it did not fix it.

Also, I still had no programs in my ToDo list for next week although at least 9 of the shows I have Series Links for are indeed new episodes next week. I manually set each to record from the Guide and it had the multiple "Rs" showing it was a Series Link recording. Then, when I went to the Series Link manager, it showed 0 episodes for all of the shows. Something weird is going on.

I find that problem with the Daily Show. I've set my DVR to record only first run programs. Without fail it records all of the re-runs, expecially on Monday when the guide only lists the generic description of the show.

In my experience, this is only a problem with the Monday daytime reruns, as well as during weeks when the show is entirely reruns. New episodes are handled just fine -- the DVR will record the first available showing and ignore the overnight/next-day reruns.

The issue seems to be that Comedy Central makes pretty much last-minute decisions about which episodes they're going to rerun -- the Monday daytime rerun is, I believe, supposed to be the "best" episode from the previous week, and then during rerun weeks, they pick episodes that are recent and still appear timely, but with no apparent pattern. And they don't seem to submit the rerun info to Tribune (at least, not in a timely enough manner that it gets into Tribune's data feed in advance).

Someone else mentioned "South Park," which I've only ever had issues with when they've done something like a "viewer's choice" marathon and haven't announced the included episodes in advance. For first-run episodes, the guide data sometimes stays generic up until the day of the broadcast, but it always gets "filled in" before the show actually airs. (They've actually gotten better at this in the past couple of seasons -- seems like this season, the guide data has been there at least several days ahead.)

Since this is so quirky to fix (at least from D*'s point of view), and the source data people show no real interest in fixing it, it's time to answer a simple question:

Is it preferable to record what you want and some duplicates, or to randomly miss the preferred show?

The answer is obvious, to me. The boxes supply a remote with a nice red button on it that works very well in this situation and it certainly doesn't take much time.

The problem happens for me, but not a lot. Most of the time I get only what I want.

In one case, I record all originals and repeats of NCIS on USA Network. Every couple of days, I go through the playlist with my finger on the the red button, deleting those episodes that I remember too well.

I have a separate series link set up for NCIS on CBS. I have never had a non-new show record from that series link.

All in all, the process of recording works very well for me, and the occasional screw-up of "over-recording" is a lot easier to live with than the alternative.

I would love Tribune to fix the issue, but I'm not holding my breath (or risking my mental health, what little there is left of it, on a successful resolution)

I have problems with anything on BBC America, right now Law & Order UK is quite bad. I have to program manually. Also, TNT and the Closer the season during last summer, TNT and Southland last winter and Law & Order: CI on USA last Spring/Summer.

Lastly, I the most problems have problems with the 101. It seems to affect former HBO series near the end of the run. The last 10 or 12 episodes of OZ and Deadwood would not record. I had look up episode titles on imbd.com and manually program them.

I can understand the networks and TMS not providing correct information, but why is the same issue happening with an in-house network from Directv? There are several threads about the 101 issue already.

For "The Wire," it shows the original HBO air date (e.g., this coming Sunday's episode is listed as 6/8/2003). At least with that show, though, a "First Run and Repeats" Series Link seems to work just fine -- I've gotten no unwanted recordings (only one recording of each episode).

I can understand the networks and TMS not providing correct information, but why is the same issue happening with an in-house network from Directv? There are several threads about the 101 issue already.

Ummmm, because technically the OAD for those are the dates they were aired on HBO. That's not a problem with the guide data, they are repeats from another network. The OAD is just that, the date which the episode originally aired, not the date that it airs first on every network that airs it.